i got a capture device that basically acts as a webcam and outputs the video and sound to that, it’s actually really smart and it was only like $50
to stream in discord though i have to use something that outputs sound and video from the same window. my solution was to use OBS and “monitor” the “microphone” of the capture card, which means the sound of whatever i have plugged into it. it works fine!
but OBS has this fun problem where, for some reason, the sound output to my headphones gets gradually more and more delayed. i specify “sound output to my headphones” because i can see the meter going up just in time with the sounds, but then i hear it much later. and it just keeps building and building.
installing new drivers helped, switching the sound output to 44.1 khz helped, but it still slowly builds up. there’s an open bug for this in OBS but it’s been open for 3 years and the only solutions presented were “set up automations to turn the mic off at set intervals to clear the buffer”
and it just reminds me that, like, sound management is extremely fucking stupid at every level. i feel like it’s the thing i have the most problems with on any computer, ever.
My bluetooth headphones refuse to play anything from Device A if it previously connected to Device B, even if Device B is off/disconnected.
– Solution: Disable bluetooth on Device B, turn the headphones off entirely and turn them back on
The software for those headphones will decide that every new sound device is actually the one it should be using rather than the headphones it’s specifically designed for
– Solution: Open software, switch output back to the proper device
RetroArch consistently has sound problems, like delay and crackling, on every emulated system. Down to the game boy.
– Solution: Use an old version of Retroarch for 2 years until magically one of the updates fixed it
Discord just stops picking up my microphone for no reason, even if I specifically pick the right mic
– Solution: Restart Discord, then restart entire device if that doesn’t work, then disconnect and reconnect microphone
Volume meter gets stuck - can’t adjust it for some reason
– Solution: Change default listening device in windows, change back
Bluetooth sound from my phone is crackly and inconsistent suddenly, no connection issues at all
– Solution: Disconnect headphones and reconnect - this always works, but what the hell causes the issue?
OBS is obviously streaming sound from desktop and microphone, but Twitch is only hearing the Microphone
– Solution: Twitch only registers sound being output to channel 1, so ensure all devices in OBS are outputting to channel 1. If you want separate streams for the recording, then use channels 2, 3, 4 etc. separately, but you must output to channel 1 for Twitch
My mic works in OBS and other applications, but not Discord
– Check that Windows hasn’t randomly decided that a different microphone is the “default communication device”. Finding this setting is almost impossible now though - it’s been removed from the regular control panel. I can’t even remember how to get to it now.
i think audio is usually external hardware instead of software by far and that norm means there aren’t strong incentives to fix the pretty bad OS level sound management. buying an interface and/or mixer is assumed
There are some affordable interfaces that are designed for streaming where the output can appear as an input and the processing takes place in the device’s low latency mixer. The one I have used is the Audient EVO.
Explorer is one of those apps you can’t really replace in practice like Safari on iOS because it’s treated like a system dependency, so I’ve just been using http://qttabbar.wikidot.com for years
musicbee grew on me once i got it customized
edge is fine i guess, ffx not appreciably better
discord still bloated
unity is fine but RAM hungry, esp with VS open
havent tried blender yet
need a file manager replacement
not sure. i mostly just tell my students to use the 2019 LTS version. i think you can specify resource limitations on a per-version basis, in the preferences maybe. using VS code instead of regular visual studio has also been much faster in my experience*. really not sure why unity insists on bundling the other version.
*edit: i use atom for all text editing and programming so i am less familiar with exactly how slow or fast vs code is when it’s a daily-use application.
anyone tried pale moon for non-RAM heavy browsing? not as my main browser, but as a side browser for certain things where I’m tired of edge ram hogging. i’m typing this in the browser rn, it feels uncannily like using firefox circa 2008. 250mb with 2 tabs open.
I think you’ll be fine with anything you want to do in Unity once you get to 16GB. Nice thing about small personal projects is you’re much less likely to break anything migrating back and forth between versions. Now, Unreal 4 gets real cranky if you have less than 32GB, and don’t even look at Unreal 5 unless you can out-beef a modern console
ive been using altdrag recently - really enjoy being able to resize all sides of the window at once from the centre, makes the windows feel a bit gelatinous and can be quite fun with websites that adapt well (and poorly for that matter) to window size
worth mentioning i had to reassign the hotkey for it from Alt to Win because it interfered with every 3D software i use
